Yesterday during the celebration of the 4th International Conference on Open Data Madrid, Drinks & Data we hold a social event at the conference to present Iniciativa Barcelona Open Data and the Barcelona Node ODI.

Next Tuesday (October 6th) at 20:30 we will be meeting at the Irish Rover in Madrid to share our passion for Open Data. The event will be hosted by Iniciativa Barcelona Open Data, and it will be supported by ODI Madrid and ODI HQ.

The recent decision of British people about leaving the EU introduces lots of uncertainties. One of them, and I am rather sure that it will not be on the core of the discussions is about opening their research. it is a brave decision of the EU research program to force every entity using their public funds of research and development to open access their results and to release as open data the underlying data.

Just a tiny spillover of my job to share with you. If you are a linked open data portal administrator in Spain is quite likely that you have chosen the Spanish regulation to categorize all the datasets in your catalogue.…

With the 2015 Open Data Barometer released today, the ODI reflects on global achievements and critical gaps, and publishes research on emerging trends and lessons on supporting open data initiatives for widespread positive impact